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Shiloh, GA

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Overview


Shiloh is a tiny city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 421 people and just one neighborhood, Shiloh is the 420th largest community in Georgia.

Occupations and Workforce

Shiloh is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Shiloh is a city of managers, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Shiloh who work in management occupations (28.57%), office and administrative support (16.33%), and sales jobs (6.53%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 8.94% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Shiloh is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Shiloh really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Shiloh perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Shiloh has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Shiloh has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Shiloh than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Shiloh may be for you.

In Shiloh, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 34.05 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Shiloh is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The overall education level of Shiloh is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 26.85% of adults 25 and older in the city have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Shiloh in 2018 was $54,319, which is wealthy relative to Georgia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $217,276 for a family of four. However, Shiloh contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Shiloh is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Shiloh home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Shiloh residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Shiloh include English, German, Irish, African, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Shiloh is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

Of particular note, 4.3% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.

In addition, if you are planning to retire in Georgia, this neighborhood should be on your must-see list. For many reasons, may be considered a retiree's dream neighborhood. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and metrics, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety from crime compared to other neighborhoods in Georgia, while also offering a diverse range of housing options. This, along with the vibrant mix of very educated seniors and other age groups who choose to live here, makes the neighborhood more retiree-friendly than 95.9% of neighborhoods in GA. If a Georgia retirement is in your future, this neighborhood should be one of the places you visit.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Eastern European and English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Eastern European ancestry and 21.0% have English ancestry.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Shiloh are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 57.1% of the neighborhoods in America. With 17.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 65.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 37.0% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 23.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.1%), and 15.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.4% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the neighborhood in Shiloh, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (21.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.9%), and residents who report German roots (13.7%), and some of the residents are also of Eastern European ancestry (2.1%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.7%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.5% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (86.3%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (9.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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